Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin / Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of Carlisle, and Others.

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’Midst Brookes’s elders[^[48]] on the BENCH OF WIT,

Where Hare,[^[49]] chief-justice, frames the stern decree,

While with their learned brother, sages three,

Fitzpatrick,[^[50]] Townshend,[^[51]] Sheridan, agree?

Or art thou One—THE PARTY’S flattered fool,[^[52]]

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Train’d in Debrett’s, or Ridgway’s civic school—

One, who with rant and fustian daily wears,

Well-natured Richardson![^[53]] thy patient ears;—

Who sees nor Taste nor Genius in these times,